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''Risk management - hedging''.
A pool of capital provided by small as well as institutional investors and invested in a portfolio of securities.
 
A derivative instrument or contract is one whose value and other characteristics are derived from those of another asset or instrument (sometimes known as the Underlying Asset).
 
Derivative instruments are widely used by non-financial corporates for hedging purposes.
 
 
<span style="color:#4B0082">'''Example'''</span>
 
A share option is a type of derivative contract, allowing the holder to buy shares at a certain predetermined strike price.
 
The value of the share option derives from the current price of the related underlying share relative to the option strike price.


There are two types of mutual funds: open-ended and close-ended mutual funds.  While close-ended mutual funds have a predetermined amount of capital to be invested, open-ended mutual funds do not.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[CCR]]
* [[Capital]]
* [[Collateral]]
* [[Domestic fund]]
* [[Commodity risk]]
* [[Global fund]]
* [[CP]]
   
* [[Credit support annex]]
* [[Embedded derivative]]
* [[ETD]]
* [[FC]]
* [[Fixing instrument]]
* [[Forward rate agreement]]
* [[FVTOCI]]
* [[FVTPL]]
* [[Hedge fund]]
* [[Hedging]]
* [[Interest rate swap]]
* [[IR]]
* [[ISDA Master Agreement]]
* [[Margining]]
* [[Mark to market]]
* [[Maturity]]
* [[Notional principal]]
* [[Option]]
* [[Outright]]
* [[Potential Future Exposure]]
* [[Replacement cost]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[Strike price]]
* [[Tracker fund]]
* [[Transfer]]
* [[Underlying]]
* [[Underlying asset]]
* [[Underlying price]]
* [[XVA]]
 
 
===Other links===
*[http://www.treasurers.org/node/8599 Masterclass: Derivatives, ''Sarah Boyce,'' The Treasurer]


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Revision as of 14:20, 23 October 2012

A pool of capital provided by small as well as institutional investors and invested in a portfolio of securities.

There are two types of mutual funds: open-ended and close-ended mutual funds. While close-ended mutual funds have a predetermined amount of capital to be invested, open-ended mutual funds do not.

See also